Unsigned Musician Sean Fournier Draws Over 25,000 Downloads in One Weekend

December 2, 2008December 8, 2008 ~ gubatron ~ Leave a comment

FrostWire™ is positively on the news this morning showing how P2P can achieve great things when artists have an open mind when it comes to sharing some of their work for free.

As of FrostWire™ 4.17.0, we can promote legal content, or important information using the FrostWire™ welcome screen. We’ve vowed to never use this screen for spam or evil purposes of any kind, only to help content creators of all kinds (musicians, film makers, writers, software programers, photographers, video game shops and independent professionals) that are willing to share some of their work for free, or under creative commons licenses get their message across our ever growing network.

Sean Fournier is the first musician to do so, in only 4 days his 6 track album “Oh-my” was shared via FrostWire™ by over 25,000 users, at the time of this writing the download count by the torrent tracker is 27,923, saving Sean almost 1 Terabyte of data sent, plus having his music on tens of thousands of computers and who knows into how many portable music players.

You can read the full story on FrostClick.com, our initiative towards the distribution of 100% free and legal content over FrostWire™.

Here’s a press release we found this morning on the news:

Milford, CT (PRWEB) December 2, 2008 — Musician Sean Fournier harnesses the power of Peer-to-Peer networking to distribute his free album, ‘Oh My’, to hundreds of thousands all over the world via FrostWire’s welcome screen. Within the first weekend, this exposure returned over 25,000 complete downloads for this independent singer/songwriter.

FrostWire Welcome Screen Featuring Sean Fournier

Spread it like the plague.
Fournier’s ‘Oh My’ is the first free album download to be featured on FrostWire’s Welcome Screen, which is a new feature designed to help musicians and content owners share their media for free on the FrostWire network.

‘Oh My’ is a six-track album which was created to be 100% free. Sean encourages his listeners to download it, share it, give it friends and family – and do anything within their power to “Spread it like the plague.”

Aside from it’s recent exposure on FrostClick.com, listeners can get their hands on ‘Oh My’ at Sean Fournier’s Official Website.

If you’re a professional content creator willing to share some of your work for free to get more exposure and thus increase your sales, contact us at FrostClick.com

Sean Fournier’s Blog – FrostWire related post #2

FrostClick.com – Sean Fournier’s “Oh My” – A great Free Album

New FrostWire 4.17.2 for Windows

November 23, 2008 ~ gubatron ~ 5 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Official FrostWire 4.17.2 Windows Download link

Earlier this week the FrostWire community reported an issue with our latest fixes dealing with .bittorrent file associations in FrostWire 4.17.1 for windows. Thanks to user “Trel” we have now resolved this issue and launched a hot fix release that resolves the problem, also pushing forward a fix that will enable FrostWire to save considerable bandwidth when communicating over the Mojito DHT network, thus making the P2P network healthier as more users upgrade to 4.17.2.

Hat tip to the LimeWire Team for sharing the Mojito DHT findings.

CHANGELOG:

Version 4.17.2 (November 2008)

Fixes a newly introduced bug in Windows which would make FrostWire(tm) take over the .bittorrent file association without asking the user.

Reduces DHT network load. The LimeWire team found out that the Mojito “store forwarding” feature would not provide extra data availability, so it’s been turned off from the DHT on all new FrostWires.

FrostWire.ico has been updated. Now when FrostWire(tm) is associated to .bittorrent files, .bittorrent files will use the FrostWire(tm) icon.

Note: Version 4.17.2 exists only for Windows users. Mac and Linux users don’t need to worry about this hotfix release.

About FrostWire

FrostWire, a BitTorrent/Gnutella Peer-to-Peer client, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source developers and contributors from all around the world. In late 2005, concerned developers of LimeWire’s open source community announced the start of a new project fork “FrostWire” that would protect the developmental source code of the LimeWire client and any improvements to the Gnutella protocol design. The developers of FrostWire give high regard and respect to the GNU General Public License and consider it to be the ideal foundation of a creative and free enterprise market.

Torrents. Changing MIME type and File Type Associations on Mac OSX

November 21, 2008 ~ gubatron ~ 3 Comments

After FrostWire 4.17.1 on MacOSX, FrostWire’s Info.plist file tells Mac OSX that FrostWire can be used as an application to open both torrent links and .torrent files.

If you like FrostWire only for Gnutella but not as a torrent client, you may probably want to have your .torrent files, and torrent links going by default to your preferred torrent client. It could also happen that another client is already set as the default torrent application, and you may want FrostWire to be the default.

The following screenshots will show you how to change the file associations and MIME type associations, which tell your web browser which application to open whenever a torrent link is clicked on.

Changing File Associations

1. Select a .torrent file

2. Right click on it and select “Get Info” (or press Command + i )

3. Select the Application you want to open it with, and click on the “Change All” button

4. All your .torrent file associations are now changed to the new program.

Changing MIME associations in Firefox
Open your Firefox “Preferences” and head to the “Applications” tab. Search for “torrent” and change the behavior. You can make it ask you every time for what application to use, or you can set a new default.

Note: If somebody knows how to change MIME type program associations in Safari, please let us know.

FrostWire gets popular on SourceForge.net

November 20, 2008November 19, 2008 ~ gubatron ~ Leave a comment

FrostWire reaches #4 most popular download

FrostWire on the web – November 2008

November 19, 2008November 21, 2008 ~ gubatron ~ Leave a comment

These are the blogs and sites we’ve spotted talking about FrostWire recently.

Our thanks to all for spreading the word.

Download, FTP & File Sharing

HolyFile.com

FileHippo.com

Bill Mullins’ Weblog – Tech Thoughts

If you have reviewed or talked about FrostWire on your blog or website, please leave a comment on this post, and we’ll update the list by adding a link to your page.

Kalong from Strands.com got a FrostWire T-Shirt

November 8, 2008November 8, 2008 ~ gubatron ~ Leave a comment

Thanks to Kalong from Strands.com for posting this video of her receiving the FrostWire T-Shirt and stickers.

Also thanks to all the users that have posted pictures of their stickers and t-shirts on our Flickr Photo Album

About Strands.com

Strands is a life streaming service that helps users discover new things based on what their friends like and do, and allows them to see what’s hot among the people they care about.

From Wikipedia

New FrostWire 4.17.1 Released

November 7, 2008November 7, 2008 ~ gubatron ~ 8 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Official FrostWire 4.17.1 Download link

FrostWire.com — The last of the 4.17.x FrostWire series is finally out. The following is a list of the most important updates made for this release, which irons out most of the complains received from the community in regards to 4.17.0.

The new FrostWire will allow us to distribute twice the number of installers using the same bandwidth employed by 4.17.0, The new FrostWire installer has been reduced in sized more than 50% by using the latest in compression technology.

Half sized installers

It will attempt to add the default Library folder of 4.13.5 so users won’t feel like they lost their old library

FrostWire now can be auto-started when Windows starts. This setting is available from the ‘Option’ menu (‘Windows boot’) and from the initial setup.

File Association issues fixed. FrostWire will open automatically on Windows and MacOSX upon clicking on .torrents (files and links), and magnet links.

Fixes compatibility issues with iTunes 8

Heavy work on all translations. Translation files now work with launchpad.net for more open collaboration of worldwide translator volunteers

Default Community Chat chatroom auto join update (in your own language) makes chatting friendlier to non-english speaking users. Users that speak the following languages will auto join to rooms of their own language: Dutch, Portuguese, French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Swedish, Polish, Czech, Filipino, Japanese, Finnish and Hungarian. No more unexplained kicks to international users!

Updated “FrostWire” font logo on the Logo Pane

Icons updated

Volume toolbar graphic replaced

Fixed playback Issue when continuous playback was selected

Valid Chatroom links will now open on the user’s default browser

About FrostWire

FrostWire, a BitTorrent/Gnutella Peer-to-Peer client, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source developers and contributors from all around the world. In late 2005, concerned developers of LimeWire’s open source community announced the start of a new project fork “FrostWire” that would protect the developmental source code of the LimeWire client and any improvements to the Gnutella protocol design. The developers of FrostWire give high regard and respect to the GNU General Public License and consider it to be the ideal foundation of a creative and free enterprise market.

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FrostWire included in new PCLinuxOS 2009

October 19, 2008 ~ gubatron ~ 3 Comments

We just read the release message from the PCLinuxOS team, and it mentions FrostWire is included in the distro.

This beta iso features kernel 2.6.26.6.tex2, KDE 3.5.10, Open Office 2.4.1, Firefox 3.0.3, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, Frostwire, Ktorrent, Amarok, Flash, Java JRE, Compiz-Fusion 3D and much more.

FrostWire: Safe to Install

October 2, 2008October 2, 2008 ~ gubatron ~ 1 Comment

The Editor in Chief of FindMySoft.com has just sent us the following message, which we’re very proud of:

Hello!
I am the FindMySoft.com Editor in Chief.
FindMySoft.com is running a program to certify shareware and freeware software.
We are pleased to inform you that your software FrostWire 4.17.0 has been tested on 01 Oct 2008 by one of our software engineers and has been found \”SAFE TO INSTALL\” on any computer. It has been granted the \”SAFE TO INSTALL\” certificate. This means that your software contains no viruses, spyware, adware, trojans and backdoors and causes no threat when installed.
We would also like to congratulate you for the quality of your product. It exceeds the quality standards of many other software products in its category.

Edith, Editor in Chief FindMySoft.com

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